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[Eric Riese <1424201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminder that there is still a bounty for this issue at BountySource

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/55506502-add-va-api-hardware-
decoding-support-on-linux

I got an email from BountySource that they're going to start taking old
bounties for themselves starting *2020-07-1* (reproduced below)

In my opinion the bounty was already earned when this issue was resolved
but I don't know who gets to be the arbiter.

```
Hi, 
You are receiving this email because we are updating the Bountysource Terms of Service, effective 1st July 2020.

What's changing?
We have added a Time-Out clause to the Bounties section of the agreement:

2.13 Bounty Time-Out. 
If no Solution is accepted within two years after a Bounty is posted, then the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource. For Bounties posted before June 30, 2018, the Backer may redeploy their Bounty to a new Issue by contacting support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx before July 1, 2020. If the Backer does not redeploy their Bounty by the deadline, the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource.

You can read the full Terms of Service here

What do I need to do?
If you agree to the new terms, you don't have to do anything.  

If you have a bounty posted prior to June 30, 2018 that is not currently
being solved, email us at support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to redeploy your
bounty.  Or, if you do not agree with the new terms, please discontinue
using Bountysource.

Thanks for reading

Bountysource Team
```

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424201

Title:
  Web browsers lacking hardware-accelerated video decoding

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
  Confirmed
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in chromium-browser package in CentOS:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  The chromium team has done a great job to totally disable hardware
  decoding on Linux.

  Even ignoring the GPU blacklist does not enable GPU decoding.

  How ever the patch is quite simple and it's already working using this
  PPA ( using libVA ) :

  https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev

  the corresponding patch is here :

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/chromium-browser/chromium-
  browser.trusty.beta/view/head:/debian/patches/enable_vaapi_on_linux.diff

  that would be great if we could have this patch indefault Ubuntu
  chromium build, this situation is really sad right now, google use
  linux to make chromeOS so chromebook are really good at playing videos
  but GNU/Linux chromium is slow at doing it.

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